THE DOVE STONES

THE DOVE STONES Bio:

Band History

The Dove Stones was started by Gregg Holdrich ( Guitarist) In the late end of 2006 he found himself talking to Richard brother of Duddz in a local bar. Gregg had hung his guitar up after finishing playing with quite a successful local band called The Union that had gone the way of so many bands before it and disbanded due to the usual differences. Gregg wanted to carry on playing and so decided to contact Duddz who used to play/sing for another successful local band called Kane. Initial interest from Duddz was not good as he hadn�t played in a band for a while and had kind of thrown his energies into other things by this time. However Gregg was persistent and talked Duddz round using the usual amount of alcohol.



Ok so there were 2 members now they needed a bass player and a drummer. Gregg already had an idea who he wanted as a bass player. His old bass player from The Union. So in stepped Darren �Daz� Cyprus bass player extraordinary. Darren has a knack of hearing something once then being able to play it note for note which can get a little frustrating for mere mortals.



So all we need now to complete the line up is a drummer and we all know how hard it is to find a drummer who is dependable and sane,(?). Darren said there was only one drummer as far as he was concerned but he already played for 4 other bands and would probably be too busy to play for us. We hatched a plan to get Kitch down to a rehearsal saying we just needed a stand in drummer while we found a full time one as we knew he was too busy to join us full time. Darren was confident that once he played with us then he would join us and he was right.



So The Dove Stones were complete. Duddz vocals and Guitar. Gregg Guitar and Backing vocals. Daz Bass Backing vocals and whatever else he likes and Kitch Drums.



The initial gigs were all covers and the band was really just for fun getting together every few weeks to learn a new cover to play. However it was starting to get a bit of a following locally and they all decided it would be great to start to play a few of their own songs. Duddz had a few songs he had wrote and the band tried them out at a few local gigs. The songs went well and people started to ask where they could get the songs from. It was decided to do a mini EP very low budget with a recording live at the rehearsal room. The cd sold out at the gigs much to excitement of the band.

At this point things started to get a little strange as when we played we would watch people singing along to our tunes which made us feel fantastic.



The Dove Stones were still only playing for fun however Duddz had started his writing again and frequently sent texts out to the rest of the band at silly o �clock in the morning letting them know he had completed another song.